Tonto Dikeh Biography, Education, Career, Age, Tribe, Personal Life, Controversy

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Tonto Dikeh Wigo Charity, popularly known as Tonto Dikeh and self-styled as King Tonto, is a Nigerian actress, filmmaker, musician, songwriter and politician.

She is also the founder of the Tonto Dikeh foundation established on August 27th, 2000 and the primary goal of the foundation is to be a helping hand to the less privileged.

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Tonto Dikeh Biography

Tonto Dikeh is from Ikwerre, Abio-Okpa, Rivers state, Nigeria. She is from a polygamous family and the third child among the 8 children – 5 children from her own mother and 2 children from her stepmother. At the age of 3, she lost her mother and her step-mother trained her.

Tonto Dikeh attends both primary and secondary school in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. She gained admission into the Rivers State University of Science and Technology and bagged a degree in Petrochemical Engineering. We were unable to ascertain the year of her graduation.

Tonto Dikeh Career

The controversy over her movie titled “Dirty Secret” made her try music. Terry G signed her to his record label, and then she released her first single, but people criticised her performance.

After the criticism, she joined the DB record label on June 13th 2014. For some unknown reason, she left the Record label in March 2015 and went fully into the Nollywood.

On August 18, 2022 Tonto Dikeh announced her official retirement from acting, to full concentrate on her political career.

Tonto Dikeh Personal Life

Tonto Dikeh was born into a family of seven and is the third of five children. Her family is from Obio-Akpor, a LGA in Rivers State, and is of Ikwerre descent. At age 3, she lost her mother and was raised by her step-mother, who has two children. Dikeh studied petrochemical engineering at Rivers State University of Science and Technology. In September 2021, Tonto Dikeh’s ex-fiancé, Prince Joseph Kpokpogri, sued her and the Department of State Security (DSS) to court for allegedly threatening his fundamental human rights. Kpokpogri said he left Tonto because of her hard smoking and bad drinking habit.

Tonto Dikeh Age

She is currently 37 years (2022), since she was born on 9th June 1985.

Tonto Dikeh Net Worth

As of 2021, Tonto Dikeh’s net worth is reported to be $1.5 million dollars; but this cannot be verified by any reliable wealth estimator platform.

Tonto Dikeh Controversy

Idris Okunleye, popularly known as Bobrisky, is a Nigerian crossdresser and Tonto Dikeh’s best friend.

We can term the controversy over them getting married as a cruise because the marriage didn’t hold.

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In the year 2021, they had a misunderstanding because of a post made by Tonto. This misunderstanding led to a fight which stops the friendship.

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